March 2006 Program March 1–31, 2006

PROGRAM DETAILS: MARCH 2006 / CINEMA SPONSOR: PETROL OFİSİ 

LOVE, WOMEN AND LAVISH OBSESSIONS

LO SCEICCO BIANCO

I VITELLONI

LE NOTTI Dl CABIRIA

LA DOLCE VITA

OTTO E MEZZO

GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI

SATYRICON

ROMA

IL CASANOVA Dl FELLINI

DOCUMENTARY "E IL CASANOVA Dl FELLINI?"

NEW AND INDEPENDENT

ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW

4th FILMMOR WOMEN'S FiLM FESTiVAL: DOCUMENTARIES

SHORT FILMS FROM GERMANY: SHORT & SWEET 2

FEDERICO FELLINI AŞK, LOVE, WOMEN AND LAVISH OBSESSIONS

Federico Fellini is one of the most prominent film directors of world cinema. Very few directors have had an adjective derived from their name and had it widely used. Felliniesque; to evoke a world or feeling: busty women, befuddled husbands, long-suffering wives, feckless youth, queers, prostitutes, gigolos, conmen, waifs, venial priests, angels and spirits, tacky music halls ... Fellini started as a newspaper cartoonist and comedy sketch-writer, but his first experience in film was within neo-realism. In time, the neo-realist films morphed into a varied kind of absurd reality: vivid bits of life, telling set-pieces with an immaculate cast. Fellini moved beyond the readily observable world to the equally real world of the inner life, of spirituality and magic.

LO SCEICCO BIANCO
ltaly | 1952 | 35 mm, Black-White, 85' | İtalian; ltalian; Turkish subtitles
Cast: Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Giuletta Masina, Lilia Landi, Emesto Almirante

A newly-wed couple goes to Rome on honeymoon, but she sneaks off to find the man of her dreams, "the White Sheik", from her favorite photo­romance magazine. Fellini's first solo direction (from an idea by Antonioni). And the first with music by Nino Rota, with passages of brilliant farce, this manages to get inside the allure of romance even while presenting the world that produces it as patronizing, cynical and ridiculous.

I VITELLONI
ltaly, France, 1953 | 35 mm, Black-White, 103' | ltalian; Turkish subtitles
Oyuncular / Cast: Franco lnterlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Elenora Ruffo, Leopoldo Trieste

"Vitelloni" literally means overgrown calves, a typical Fellini coinage to describe a group of petit bourgeois, stay at home young men in a provincial seaside town, kidding themselves they've grown out of adolescence. They think they're something, and the film manages to be both pitiless and sympathetic in showing that they're not. There is everything that makes Fellini Fellini: the strains of Nino Rota's insinuating, melancholy music, the haunting sound of wind, subtly, flowing camera movement, seedy imagery of small-town life, a perfectly chosen cast and a disconcerting sense of point of view.

LE NOTTI Dl CABIRIA
ltaly, France | 1957, 35 mm, Black-White, 117’ | ltalian; Turkish subtitles
Cast: Giuletta Masina, François Perier, Amedeo Nazzari, Franca Marzi

Giuletta Masina won awards at both Cannes and the Oscars for this -her finest -performance as the eternally hopeful, life-loving prostitute Cabiria, untouched by cynicism about life and men, no matter how much evidence she encounters to the contrary. A series of episodes gives us a cross-section of Roman life, with sequences of interplay between the camerawork, editing and music that are breathtaking.

LA DOLCE VITA
ltaly, France | 1960, 35 mm, Black-White, 178' | ltalian; Turkish subtitles
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Alain Cuny

La Dolce Vita would be a documentary if it weren't so extravagant. Everyone in it really was someone about the Roman scene, and the situations and locations are spot-on as representative of their time. Yet from its stunning widescreen pan, it's also a film of the most exuberant camerawork and pointed imagery, a study of encroaching boredom that manages never to be boring but a modern fresco of decadence.

OTTOEMEZZO
ltaly, 1963 | 35 mm, Black-White, 114' | ltalian; Turkish subtitles
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Barbara Steele

A film director who looks like Fellini tries to make a film but can't. He simultaneously works on different projects for his next film but memories from childhood and sexual fantasies assail him, he cannot get started as he cannot make sense of his own life. He inevitably turns inward to examine the events that shaped him: boyhood, the church, relations with his parents, and women in his life, and all the accompanying nightmares. 8 1/2, is Fellini's personal portrait and judgment on his colleagues and the cinema. Art, corruption, traditions, morals, money, love, marriage, religion and disappointment notions, concepts along with how a person should live his/her life is questioned.

GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI
France, ltaly | 1965, 35 mm, Color, 120' | ltalian; Turkish sublitles
Cast: Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sanro Milo, Valentino Cartese, Sylva Koscina

Fellini's first film in color stars his wife Giulietta Masina. She plays a housewife with a philandering husband assailed by dreams ancı visions, strange neighbors and dotty friends. A film about spirits rather than psychology, with shimmering sets, sweet and brilliant imagery, and affectionately ironic music, this is a rich film.

SATYRICON
ltaly, France | 1969, 35 mm, Color, 138' | ltalian; Turkish subtitles
Cast: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Salvo Randone, Capucine

Visionary, phantasmagoric, at times vulgar and, by the way, often tenderly gay, Satyricon, is a fabulous spectacle beyond worlds and yet rigorous in its respect for how the original comes down to us: fragmentary, even incomprehensible, with sudden shifts of tone. Widescreen composition recreates the depthlessness of fresco, the music is out of time, but everything throbs with strange violence and baffling sexuality, excessive bingeing jostling philosophical reflection and esoteric poetry.

ROMA
ltaly, France | 1972, 35 mm, Color, 119' | ltalian; Turkish subtitles
Cast: Peter Gonzales, Fiona Florence, Britta Bames

Fellini's Roma is an imperial gesture at documentary; a sketchbook about the city of Fellini's imagination, that love-hate-dream-nightmare city which is more familiar to us by now than Rome itself. More an experimental joumey than a travelogue, Fellini's Roma is seamed with some magisterial and marvelous images and sequences inspired by the director's remembrances and by his sharp observations about modern times.

IL CASANOVA Dl FELLINI
ltaly | 1976, 35 mm, Color, 170' | İltalian; Turkish subtitles
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne

Fellini had already started to make Casanova when he found that he disliked the man intensely. Never can such a budget, such sets, such lavishness and imagination have been so shot through with contempt and disgust. Both Danilo Donati with the costumes and Nino Rota with the music base themselves in 18th century originals, but tweak and exaggerate them magnificently to a hysteria and priapic dementia. Staggering, horrible, sublime.

DOCUMENTARY "E IL CASANOVA Dl FELLINI?"
Director: Gianfranco Angelucci
ltaly | DVD, Color, 73' | ltalian; Turkish subtitles

Between 1974-1975, Fellini's asistants Gianfranco Angelucci and Liliana Betti, were assigned with a mission to invesitgate how Casanova's legacy has lived among the ltalian culture for almost three centuries. They talked to people of knowledge and professors on such fields, reaching to intellectuals from Alberto Moravia to acclaimed international critics. This documentary's director Gianfranco Angelucci graduated from Bologna University Faculty of Literature and Art History and wrote his thesis on Federico Fellini. He worked with Fellini until his death.

*This documentary has been provided by Rai Teche.

NEW AND INDEPENDENT

ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
USA | 2005, 35 mm, Color, 92' | English; Turkish subtitles
Director: Miranda July
Cast: John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff, Carlie Westerman, Najarra Townsend
Awards won at Festivals: 2005 Cannes; 2005 Sundance; 2005 San Francisco,2005 Los Angeles

Christine is an artist and "Eldercab" driver who alternates between heartbreak and faith as she weaves together reality and the fantastical in her art and life. Richard Swersey, a newly single shoe salesman and a father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. Life is not so oblique for Richard's 7-year-old Robby, who is having a risque internet romance with a stranger, and his 14-year-old brother Peter, who becomes the guinea pig for neighbourhood girls practicing for their future of romance and marriage. All of them seeking togetherness in the small moments that connect them to someone else on earth. But when the captivating and spontaneous Christine (Miranda July) enters his life, he panics, his life changes in an unexpected way ...

Miranda July was born in 1974 and began her career as a performance artist. She caught the critics'

attention with her short films as she applied her artistic endeavours to the cinema. July,'s debut film which she acted in and directed, Me and You and Everyone We Know, earned quite an interest in New York and now she is seen as the queen of independent cinema.

4th FILMMOR WOMEN'S FiLM FESTiVAL: DOCUMENTARIES

MOR AGENDA 2005
Türkiye | 2005, DV, Color, 60' | Turkish; English subtitles
Directors: Ülku Songül, Melek Özman

With nine women's cameras from campaigns to street activities this film documents various events taking place in Turkey about women / institutions showing their struggle and experiences.

AVCILAR, MEDIATORS AND WOMEN
Türkiye | 2005, DV, Color, 22' | Turkish: English subtitles
Director: Atölyemor Kolektifi

About women working in/around the house; how their work is not perceived as work and how their labor is not appreciated but how it should be appreciated and what to do about it.

JOURNEY BEYOND VIOLENCE
Türkiye | 2005, DV, Color, 40' | Turkish; English subtitles
Director: Atölyemor Kolektifi

This film tells the story of three women who are domestically abused and how they cope with violence.

WE ARE THE FILM!
Türkiye | 2005, DV, Color, 30' | Turkish; English subtitles
Director: Atölyemor Kolektifi

We are the Film!, explores the behind-the-scenes of Avcılar, Mediators and Women and Journey Beyond Violence documentaries; how the women who never used a camera in their lives worked with proffessionals and making their own films.

CICADANT
Türkiye | 2005, DV, Color, 50' | Turkish; English subtitles
Director: Bingöl Elmas

In a small town, İbo, at the age of 45 works, as a civil servant announcer, a tea servant at the municipality, farmer and marriage registrar. He does all his work to make his dreams come true which nobody believes in. This is İbo’s story of dreams and aspirations.

HOUSEKEEPER
Türkiye | 2005, DV, Color, 52' | Turkish; English subtitles
Director: Emel Çelebi

Housekeeper tells the story of women earning a living by cleaning other people's houses. Also the hardships of coming from the rural and the country migrating to the big city and how they try to survive are being explored.

DIALOGUES IN DARKNESS
Türkiye | 2005, DV, Color, 67' | Turkish; English subtitles
Director: Melek Ulagay Taylan

Documentary of a journey into the southeast of Turkey, stories of women who have died because of sexual assaults, documents they have left behind, interviews with the locals and archival footage from newspapers.

34 TAXI
Türkiye | 2005, OV, Color, 51' | Turkish; English subtitles
Director: Belmin Söylemez

Traffic reveals the character of a metropolitan city, reflecting the different kinds of behavior. For most people, traffic is just an annoying routine of everyday life but for some it is a way of life. 34 Taxi is a video-documentary which shows Istanbul from the taxi drivers' point of view. Shot mainly during daily taxi rides the film is based on the drivers' conversations with their passengers.

THE WOMAN BEHIND THE CAMERA: BİLGE OLGAÇ
Türkiye | 2005, Betacam, Color, 54' | Turkish: English subtitles
Director: Feza Sınar

This documentary tells the story of Bilge Olgaç, her life and filmmaking, having made 36 films and receiving awards especially abroad, it is a tragic story as she died in a house fire in 1994. The film portrays this powerful woman filmmaker's life and cinema onto the silver screen.

TALK: WOMEN'S DOCUMENTARY CINEMA IN TURKEY
Participants: Nalan Sakızlı, Şehbal Şenyurt, Bingöl Elmas, Melek Özman
Date: 16.03.2006, 17:00

SHORT FILMS FROM GERMANY

100 years ago, all the films were short. Even in the sixties, young talents later to become famous such as Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wenders were initially presented to the public with short film works that were screened at the cinemas as supporting films. The short film program SHORT AND SWEET 2, is a follow-up of Goethe lnstitute's Short and Sweet series. Most of the films directors' have been either awarded with an Oscar or a student Oscar, graduated with German Master Degrees in film. 27 new works give an overview of the short film productions and developments in Germany over the last few years. The shorts have been compiled under 4 different topics, being part of the 18th lnternational Short Film Festival, this will be the first time these shorts will have their own section.

SHORT AND SWEET 2

YOU AND ME

Meine Eltern / My Parents
Director: Neela Leana Vollmar

Fremdkörper / Transposed Bodies
Director: Katja Pratschke

Annaottoanna
Director: Clemens Pichler

Einfach So Bleiben / Stay Like This
Director: Sven Taddicken

İch Muss Gehen / Got to Go
Director: Florian Mischa Böder

YAKIN VE UZAK / CLOSE TO HOME AND FAR AWAY

Finow
Director: Susanne Quester

Lehrfilm Über die Rekonstruktion von Stasiakten / Educational Film About State Security Files
Director: Anke Limprecht

lnnen Aussen Mongolei / Inside Outside Mongolia
Director: Sebastien Winkels

Notizen Für Den Kopf / Notes for the Head
Director: Fatima Abdollahyan

Howrah Howrah
Director: Till Passow

On a Wednesday Night in Tokyo
Director: Jan Verbeek

Himmelfilm / Sky Film
Director: Jiska Rickels

Freie Auswah / Free Choice
Directors: Daniel Kunle, lmmo Lüdemann

YOUNG AND OLD

Gregors Grösste Erfindung
Director: Johannes Kiefer

Fragile
Director: Sikander Goldau

Der Schüler / The Schoolboy
Director: Edina Kontsek

Das Verraterische Herz / The Tell-Tale Heart
Director: Marc Malze

Talks
Director: Mickel Rentsch

Zur Zeit Verstorben / Dead, At the Moment
Director: Thomas Wendrich

Heavy Pregnant
Director: Piotr Lewandowski

KAÇMAK YA DA KALMAK / SHOULD I GO OR STAY

Björn Oder die Hürden der Behörden / Björn - The Hurdles of Bureaucracy
Director: Andreas Niessner

Kleingeld / Small Change
Director: Marc Andreas Bochert

Oufte / Great
Director: lngo Rasper

Abhaun! / Escape!
Director: Christoph Wermke

Haschen in der Grube / Rabbit in a Hole
Director: Hanna Doose

Business As Usual
Director: Tom Zenker

The Day Winston Ngakambe Came to Kiel
Director: Jasper Ahrens

EVENTS

DOCUMENTARY "E IL CASANOVA Dl FELLINI?"
5 MARCH 2006, Sunday, 17:30

Talk with Gianfranco Angelucci
16 MARCH 2006,Thursday, 17:00

TALK: WOMEN'S DOCUMENTARY CINEMA IN TURKEY
Participants: Nalan Sakızlı, Şehbal Şenyurt, Bingöl Elmas, Melek Özman.
25 MARCH 2006, Saturday, 14:00

TALK: 18th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTiVAL
Siegfried A. Fruhauf, director of Mirror Mechanics, Austria
26 MART / MARCH 2006 azar/ Sunday, 14:00

TALK: 18th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTiVAL